Using R with SQL Server and Azure ML (SQR)

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Introducing the language, statistics, data mining, and machine learning with R and using R in Microsoft BI stack

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R is the most popular environment and language for statistical analyses, data mining, and machine learning. Managed and scalable version of R runs in SQL Server and Azure ML.

As being an open source development, R is the most popular analytical engine and programming language for data scientists worldwide. The amount of libraries with new analytical functions is enormous and continuously growing. However, there are also some drawbacks. R is a programming language, so you have to learn it to use it. Open source development also means less control over code. Finally, the free R engine is not scalable.

Microsoft added support for R code in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure Machine Learning, or Azure ML. A parallelized highly scalable execution engine is used to execute the R scripts. In addition, not every library is allowed in these two environments.

Attendees of this seminar learn to program with R from the scratch. Basic R code is introduced using the free R engine and RStudio IDE. Then the seminar shows some more advanced matrix calculations and statistical analysis together with graphing
options. The mathematics behind is briefly explained as well. Then the seminar switches more advanced data mining and machine learning analyses. Attendees also learn how to use the R code in SQL Server, Azure ML, and create SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports that use R.